Series of events in Ballybough and North Strand
The Ballybough and North Strand area of Dublin is a vibrant community rich in history. We are showcasing a small series of free events for all in the community. Sean...
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Talks
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Paula Meehan in Conversation
The Poddle Room Printworks Dublin Castle, Dame St, Dublin, Dublin**Apologies, registration full** Paula Meehan is one of Ireland's best-known contemporary poets. In this discussion with historian Donal Fallon, she will read and discuss a number of recent works with...
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Land Is All That Matters
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, Dublin**Apologies, registration full** In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well....
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Songs of History
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, DublinSongs have told the story of Ireland and Irish history for centuries. In this special event, musicians and singers Mike Hanrahan and Eleanor Shanley, working with historian Liz Gillis will...
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The Trouble with Recent History
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, Dublin**Apologies, registrations full** The last 50 years in Ireland present a very turbulent and troubled history. The country has seen terrible violence in Northern Ireland, the collapse of the economy...
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The outbreak of the Troubles, 1969-73: ‘Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volume fourteen’
The Poddle Room Printworks Dublin Castle, Dame St, Dublin, DublinSince 1998 the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series has been publishing archival documents on Ireland's foreign relations since 1919, to make them more accessible. Now, with the fourteenth...
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Queer Femininities of the late 19th and 20th Century Ireland
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, DublinMary McAuliffe will lead discussion on this nascent and very vibrant area of study in the histories of Irish sexualities. She’ll be talking about Irish female revolutionaries and same-sex relationships....
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Gaeil agus Géibheann agus Éamonn Mac Thomáis (1927-2002)
The Poddle Room Printworks Dublin Castle, Dame St, Dublin, DublinNótáil gur eachtra dhá pháirt é seo a bheidh 90 nóiméad in fhad. Gaeil agus Géibheann Eoghan Mac Cormaic Ina leabhar nua fhoilsithe Gaeil agus Géibheann tharraing Eoghan Mac Cormaic...
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Heroines of the Wars: Talk by Clare Mulley and Rick Stroud
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, DublinClare Mulley tells the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. She was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw...
History Ireland Hedge School: Is Irish history ‘sea blind’?
The Substation Alexandra Road, Dublin, DublinIn 1986, the maritime historian, John de Courcey Ireland, wrote: ‘The lives of island peoples like Ireland’s been dominated by the seas encircling them. Yet this fact has been largely...
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The Irish in the Resistance
The Poddle Room Printworks Dublin Castle, Dame St, Dublin, Dublin**Apologies, registration full** Clodagh Finn and John Morgan are co-authors of The Irish in the Resistance, a new history which tells some of the untold stories of the ordinary heroes...
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The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre Dublin Castle Dame St, Dublin 2, DublinSam Leith and Sarah Carey Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? Maybe you tumbled down a rabbit hole, flew out of your bedroom...
Churchill and the First World War: Talk by Peter Caddick-Adams
**Apologies, this event is now CANCELLED** In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian Peter Caddick-Adams shows that the recipe for Winston Churchill’s success during his wartime premiership...
Myles na gCopaleen: Deich mBréag
OnlineONLINE TALK Is caint í seo ina dtugtar aghaidh ar chuid de na míthuiscintí agus ráflaí is mó faoi shaol agus faoi shaothar Bhriain Uí Nualláin. Cérbh é? Cárbh as...
Poetry Readings in The Irish Writers Room
The National Wax Museum Plus The Lafayette Building 22-25 Westmoreland St, Dublin 2, DublinStep into the enchanting world of verse and rhythm at Poetry Reading Nights in The Irish Writers Room, nestled within The National Wax Museum Plus. Immerse yourself in the timeless...
Bram Stoker and the Irishness of Dracula
Raheny Library Howth Rd Raheny, Dublin, Dublin**Apologies, registration full** This talk is by Dennis McIntyre and will be delivered in two parts. The first part of this discourse gives an account of the life of Bram...
Turkish-German Cinema: From Minority to Mainstream Culture
Terenure Library Templeogue Road, Terenure, Dublin 6W, Dublin, DublinAs a result of the bilateral agreement between Turkey and West Germany in 1961, Turks are now Germany's largest minority and Berlin has one of the largest Turkish populations of...
Paudeen- Some sketches from the life of Padraig O’Keefe
Phibsboro Library Phibsboro Library Blacquiere Bridge, Phibsboro, Co.DublinPatrick O'Byrne will be giving a talk on the fascinating life of his maternal grandfather Padraig O Caoimh aka Paudeen (1881 - 1973) in Phibsboro Library. Paudeen took part in...